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This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Reiss begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing - not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.
Table of Contents
- Behind the scenes
- January - Choosing practices
- February - Fasting in the desert
- March - meeting Jesus in the kitchen. . . or not
- April - Lectio divination
- May - Nixing shopertainment
- June -
Centering Prayerer, The Jesus PrayerLook! a squirrel! - July - Unorthodox Sabbath
- August - Thanksgiving every day
- September - Benedictine Hospitality
- October - What would Jesus eat?
- November -
Sevenfivethree times a day will I praise you - December - Generosity
- Epilogue - Practice makes imperfect
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| Format: | Paperback book |
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| Product code: | PP6607 |
| Dimensions: | 5.25" x 8.25" |
| Length: | 179 pages |
| Publisher: |
Paraclete Press
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| ISBN: | 9781557256607 |
| 1-2 copies | $15.83 each |
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| 3-9 copies | $15.11 each |
| 10-49 copies | $14.39 each |
| 50-99 copies | $14.03 each |
| 100+ copies | $13.49 each |
Written by Jana Riess
